The Voices of iCritical Care
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iCritical Care Podcast Editor
Jeffrey Guy, MD, MSc, MMHC, is an experienced and top-rated podcaster. An avid marathon runner, Guy listened to hours of podcasts while running and realized how the media of podcasting could expand educational opportunities to those with busy and active lives.
Guy is an associate professor of surgery and director of the Regional Burn Center and Acute Operative Services at Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, he co-directs a medical student immersion course on critical care physiology, a program he helped develop. He also established a sustainment training program at Vanderbilt for U.S. combat medics. His clinical practice is focused on critical care, pediatric and adult burn surgery, and emergency general surgery.
Guy graduated from Kent State University Honors College and Northeast Ohio Medical University in 1991 as part of a combined six-year BS/MD program. He completed a residency in general surgery at Akron General Medical Center in Akron, Ohio. He did a research fellowship at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. followed by fellowships in surgical critical care and burn surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1998, Guy was the recipient of the American Burn Association’s Charles Fox Traveling Fellowship that allowed him to travel and learn at several burn centers around the country. Guy has graduate degrees in physiology as well as healthcare management.
Guy has authored more than 60 papers and book chapters and has edited eight textbooks. His areas of interest include pre-hospital emergency and trauma care as well as health care management and innovation. Several national child advocacy groups and the Tennessee Governor’s Outstanding Service Award have recognized his efforts related to the prevention and recognition of child abuse. For his efforts in training military medical providers, Guy received the U.S. Army’s Commanders Award for Public Service (101st Airborne Division) and the Special Operations Medicine Service Award (7th Special Forces Group). He is the associate global medical director of a Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS), which has trained more than 500,000 civilian and military providers in more than 48 countries.
Guy has been married for more than 20 years. His wife, Deanna, is a pediatric endocrinologist and they have five children. He enjoys training for marathons, writing, baseball, and hockey.
iCritical Care Associate Editors
Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM, is professor of pediatrics at Stony Brook University, in Stony Brook, New York, and is the director of the pediatric intensive care unit at Stony Brook University Medical Center. In her role as assocaite editor, Parker conducts interviews with authors from Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and other pediatric critical care experts.
Parker received her bachelor of science and medical degrees from Brown University. She trained in internal medicine at Roger Williams General Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, and then in critical care at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. She spent 11 years in the critical care medicine department at the National Institutes of Health, where she was head of the critical care section. In 1991, she accepted a position in the pediatric intensive care unit at Stony Brook University, and subsequently became director of the unit.
Parker served as SCCM’s president from 2004 to 2005 and continues to be involved in many Society activities. She has published more than 70 articles, reviews, and chapters, most on the subject of sepsis. At Stony Brook, she has been active in medical student and resident education, and both hospital and medical school administration. She has received the resident teaching award three times and received the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine award in 2005. In 2006, she won SCCM’s Distinguished Service Award.
Michael S. Weinstein, MD, FACS, FCCP, received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He went on to complete a surgical residency and surgical critical care fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJUH) where he stayed on staff in the Department of Surgery. Board certified in surgery and surgical critical care, Weinstein now is an associate professor of surgery at Jefferson Medical College in the Division of Acute Care Surgery. He is director of the 25-bed surgical intensive care unit and executive medical co-director of the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Programs for Critical Care. He also serves as co-director for the Diaphragmatic Phrenic Nerve Pacing Program of TJUH and the Delaware Valley Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center. His clinical and academic interests relate to palliative care integration in the intensive care unit, medical ethics, diaphragmatic pacing, and spinal cord injury.
